skilling: Skill ministry pulled up over vacancies in ITIs, inadequate use of budgetary resources

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The standing committee on skills development has pulled up the ministry for a large number of vacancies in ITIs, both for candidates as well as professionals, and inadequate utilization of budgetary resources leading to insufficient allocation and shortfalls in achievement of physical targets.

According to the committee, out of the existing 22,75,439 seats across all the ITIs in 36 states/UTs, 10,60,191 seats are lying vacant noticeable in Uttar Pradesh (2,07,606) followed by Rajasthan (1,37,200), Madhya Pradesh (86,999), Jharkhand (71,886), Odisha (51,829) and Tamil Nadu (49,668).

“The committee impress upon the ministry to expeditiously chalk out suitable strategies, in unison with the state/UT governments so as to enroll maximum number of students against the existing vacant seats,” it said in its report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.

Likewise, out of the 1,99,387 number of sanctioned posts for professionals, across all the ITIs, 1,29,805 are lying vacant as per the NCVT portal as on February 21, 2022.

Expressing displeasure at such a huge number of vacancies of professionals, the committee impressed upon the ministry to take urgent steps to address the shortage of professionals in ITIs so as to ensure efficient and high quality training delivery.

The Committee are of the view that the expenditure rush towards the end of the financial year would invariably lead to savings in multiple areas resulting in insufficient allocation and shortfalls in achievement of physical targets.

Low utilisation

The committee noted that the BE and RE for 2021-22 for the ministry was the same at Rs 2785.23 crore whereas the actual expenditure has been Rs 1700.53 crore as on January 31, 2022. This constituted 61.05 % fund utilization leaving 38.9 % of allocation to be utilized in the last two months of financial year 2021-22.

“The committee is of the view that the expenditure rush towards the end of the financial year would invariably lead to savings in multiple areas resulting in insufficient allocation and shortfalls in achievement of physical targets,” it said.

“The committee, therefore, recommends that the ministry make earnest efforts to strictly follow the expenditure control guidelines issued by the finance ministry and proportionately utilize the earmarked amount in every quarter,” it added.

The skills development ministry got a budgetary allocation of Rs 2999 crore as against the proposed Rs 5125.32 crore for 2022-23.

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